“Albania to give citizenship to ethnic Albanians worldwide”

He said at a government meeting in Tirana that Albanians in Albania and Kosovo “should feel as one” although they had two separate governments.

Berisha also insisted that the plan would not cause friction in the country’s relations with neighbors.

Kosovo's population is more than 90 percent ethnic Albanian. Ethnic Albanians form about a quarter of the population in neighboring Macedonia, where an ethnic Albanian uprising in 2001 brought the country to the brink of civil war.